Cost and special parts to turbo

CUUDAK said

I am at $3800 in parts alone in my S480 build. Still waiting on the cost of machine work like clean, magna flux, blueprint, balance and fitting the girdle. Pistons were close to $900 for Diamond with rings. Rods were a tick under $400 and still waiting on the factory forged crank to get turned.

You can review my thread "Turbo 383 in a A-body Barracuda" for a list of parts I have purchased. I am a "Bargain" shopper so I got alot of new parts cheap!!

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I was strickly talking turbo not a full rebuild like you are doing. I would agree the best way would be a full rebuilds with rods, pistons, machine work, propper cam. that would be the best way which is going to cost more than just the boost referenced fuel system, carb, intercooler, turbo, BOV, and exhaust. But I think if he just wnated to turbo the car with low boost (6 psi maybe 7) he could get away with about 4 g's until it needed a full rebuild a little bit down the road/ But also depends how its driven and if you're turboing it you probably are not soft on it.

by the way look at CUUDAK's threat its great. I have read it about three times.